books.google.com - Onians' remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients. The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Origins_of_European_Thought.html?id=cjDy2O2jDmUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Origins of European Thought

The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate

Onians' remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients. The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans.